There is no better description of the type of people who put up Palestinian flags all over Spain. They believe that condescending to something scary will make it less dangerous. Because it’s all about words. It’s all about positioning. You can conjure reality with rituals.
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“They believe that condescending to something scary will make it less dangerous”
I think the liberal love of pitbulls is also their attempt to ‘prove’ the blank slate. If they’re just good enough then pitbulls won’t be any more likely to bite random people than cocker spaniels of golden retrievers…..
It fails because genetics….. count for a lot with dogs (and people). But genetics are beyond individual control so they have to constantly try to disprove the idea that inherited characteristics are important.
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In SA, liberalism is traditionally most popular with people like Elon Musk who believe themselves to be genetically superior and likely to get the well-paid engineering jobs in a free market. The pitbulls are to stop the genetically inferior from taking their stuff.
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Just read the latest annual report (released in March) , «Democracy Report 2024» by V-Dem (are they good?)
The entire PDF in English and Spanish:
https://www.v-dem.net/publications/democracy-reports/I was interested in the table on page 17 with the classification of countries according to the Regimes of the World measure.
A few interesting points:
// The level of democracy enjoyed by the average person in the world in 2023 is down to 1985-levels; by country-based averages, it is back to 1998.
Since 2009 – almost 15 years in a row – the share of the world’s population living in autocratizing countries has overshadowed the share living in democratizing countries. The decline is stark in Eastern Europe and South and Central Asia.
A total of 60 countries are in episodes of regime transformation – autocratizing or democratizing. Autocratization is ongoing in 42 countries, home to 2.8 billion people, or 35% of the world’s population. […] Democratization is taking place in 18 countries, harboring only 400 million people, or 5% of the world’s population.
71% of the world’s population – 5.7 billion people – live in electoral or closed autocracies in 2023.4 That is an increase from 48% of the world population ten years ago.
By territory-weighted averages, the level of democracy is now back to the levels last seen in 1987
The level of democracy measured by the relative size of the economy stands out, marking the most dramatic change. The world is already below where it was in 1973 – which was before the start of the third wave of democratization beginning with Portugal’s carnation revolution in 1974.
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains the most autocratic region in the world, with 98% of its population residing in autocracies. A large share (45%) lives in closed autocracies such as Iran, Libya, and Saudi Arabia, but 53% live in electoral autocracies, such as Türkiye and Iraq. 2% of the region’s population reside in Tunisia, which is in the “grey zone” electoral autocracy category. The remaining 2% live in Israel. Notably, Israel lost its long-time status as liberal democracy in 2023. It is now classified as an electoral democracy – for the first time in over 50 years. This is primarily due to substantial declines in the indicators measuring the transparency and predictability of the law, and government attacks on the judiciary. Among other things, Israel’s Knesset passed a bill in 2023 stripping the Supreme Court of the power to declare government decisions unreasonable. Indicators that are in substantive decline also include freedom from torture.
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The entire essence of the Left is the need to condescend and gloat. There’s nothing else there.
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The amount of ignorant condescension on this blog is amazing. I guess it helps you sleep at night to think yourself more enlightened than the bunch of genetically deficient savages over in Palestine. And of course, you’re not referring to the right wing bulldogs that have the exact same characteristics as the Hamas ghouls you prefer to liken ALL Palestinian citizens to. Pfft.
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is this about dogs still? Pit bulls are left, bulldogs right?
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“Pfft”
At last! A nickname, please include this at the beginning and end of each post to distinguish you from others anonymice.
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Will do when I see a dedicated post on this blog mocking and condemning people who do this:
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1804379908119969831?s=19
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I’ve mocked Max Blumenthal for years. It’s really weird to criticize me, of all people, for not condemning Max Blumenthal enough. The dude is absolute scum.
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“weird to criticize me, of all people, for not condemning Max Blumenthal”
I think Anonyrat meant you’re supposed to support and highlight the groundbreaking journalism engaged in by Blumenthal (my assessment matches yours).
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But did you figure out why you are madder about Blumenthal than the disgusting actions of the people he highlights? You can’t be fine associating with people using rape or threats of rape as perfectly legitimate expression of speech, can you?
Oh, I forgot, when it comes to this matter, anything goes, and you totally can’t see or condemn it, because it doesn’t fit your narrative.
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Whenever people think it’s time to send the Anonyrodent into a rest mode, I’ll do it.
Let me know.
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